A 60GHz digitally controlled RF beamforming array in 65nm CMOS with off-chip antennas

Author

Lin, Saihua ; Ng, K.B. ; Wong, Hang ; Luk, K.M. ; Wong, S. Simon ; Poon, Ada S Y

Author_Institution

EE Dept., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

5-7 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An RF-path 60-GHz band 4-element array using proposed phase-oversampling vector modulation is implemented in 65-nm CMOS. Digitally controlled semi-lookup table method is proposed to compensate for non-idealities in circuits, antenna array, and interfaces. Accurate and high resolution control on the gain and phase is demonstrated. The receiver features an NF of 5.6 dB and 3.5° phase resolution at a backoff of 3 dB. It dissipates 178 mW from I-V supply and obtains 18.5 dB gain for each channel.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; antenna arrays; array signal processing; modulation; table lookup; CMOS; RF-path 4-element array; antenna array; circuits; digitally controlled RF beamforming array; digitally controlled semi-lookup table method; frequency 60 GHz; gain 18.5 dB; gain control; interfaces; off-chip antennas; phase control; phase-oversampling vector modulation; power 178 mW; size 65 nm; voltage 1 V; Antenna measurements; Array signal processing; Arrays; CMOS integrated circuits; Gain; Noise measurement; Receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8293-1

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2011.5940602

Filename

5940602